New England Society of American Foresters News Quarterly Special points of Volume 79, Issue 2 April, 2018 interest: • Leaders Wanted! Extra, Extra! Lead all about it! Cover Page No folks, that was not a typo! We have a great • Forester survey, opportunity for several motivated individuals to page 3 attend an upcoming Regional Leadership Academy! • Thank you sponsors! Beginning last year, the state societies of Page 8-9 Allegheny, Maine, and New York have been plan- ning for a regional leadership academy to be held • Pictures! Page 19 in 2018. The academy is scheduled for November 14 – 16, 2018 and will be held at the Grey Towers • A new App! Page 25 National Historic Site, located in Milford, PA. This is an opportunity for each of 12 states to obtain targeted leadership training for foresters, and allow attendees to share in some awesome networking. Each local unit within NESAF will be encouraged to identify and recommend a candidate, ideally an Grey Towers National Historic Site early-career forester and SAF member, who could Image courtesy of Daniel Case (Own work), 2007 become a future leader in New England. To that goal, NESAF has awarded a grant to provide $300 Inside this issue: for one candidate from each of the 6 New England states. NESAF has a total of 11 slots allo- cated, so multiple candidates are possible. The planning committee feels very strongly that that this will be a worthwhile opportunity, Connect with us 2 benefiting the attendee, their employer, the local SAF unit, and their community. The agenda will provide training in leadership concepts and practical exercises of those skills. Anticipated costs per attendee are $1,000 for registration, travel, lodging, and meals. NESAF Columns 3 Additional underwriting is being explored and is also encouraged from the respective local SAF units. Because the attendee and their employer will also be beneficiaries of the train- ing, the planning committee believes that they should also share in the overall expense. Award Recipients 4 For more information, contact Ken Laustsen (207.287.3135 or [email protected] ) or your local SAF Unit. Science Theme 10 State Affairs 20 Emerging Science: abstracts from the 2018 NESAF Annual Meeting News Quarterly science theme– Dr. Anthony D’Amato, theme editor In Memoriam 26 This theme continues the concept started a couple years ago in the News Quarterly, a compilation of scientific and technical abstracts presented at the Annual Winter Meeting in Nashua. The focus is to highlight research projects currently underway at our universities CDF Update 27 and institutions, while also allowing the next generation of foresters an opportunity to establish themselves. The abstracts span a variety of topics, so it’s likely that something will catch your attention. I hope the abstracts featured in this theme are as well received as they have been in previous years! (Articles begins on page 10) Page 2 NESAF News Quarterly NESAF Executive Committee Members Chair: Kevin S. Evans CT/Grants Chair: Mel Harder Policy Chair: Could be you! [email protected] (o) 860-653-2444 [email protected] Membership Chair: Susan Francher Chair Elect: Julie Renaud Evans (o) 603-271-2214 [email protected] ME: Robert Cousins [email protected] [email protected] Immediate Past Chair: Jeffrey S. Ward NESAF Archivist: Ken Laustsen (o) 203-974-8495 MA/Awards: William N Hill, CF (o) 207-287-3135 [email protected] (o) (413) 545-3891 [email protected] [email protected] Secretary: Mallory Bussell CFE Coordinator: Andrew Fast (c) 207-329-21 79 NH: Jonathan Nute (c) 603-841-6544 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Treasurer: Donn Downey RI/Elections Coordinator: Robert MacMillan Website Administrator: Wendy Weisiger [email protected] (o) 401-521-6300*7318 (o) 603-224-9945 [email protected] [email protected] District Six Council Representative: Si Balch (o) 207-359-3343 VT: Ed O’Leary News Quarterly Editor: Joseph P. Barsky [email protected] [email protected] (o) 203-974-8540 [email protected] Canada: Donald W. Floyd Science/Tech Chair: Anthony D’Amato (o) 506-451-6866 (o) 802-656-8030 [email protected] [email protected] State Chapter and Division Officers Granite State Yankee Chair: Steve Eisenhaure (o) 603-534-7979 Chair: Michael Bartlett (c) 860-377-0177 [email protected] [email protected] Vice-Chair: Mike Powers (o) 603-325-5430 Vice–Chair: Vacant [email protected] Sec/Treas: Thomas Worthley (o) 860-345-4511 Treasurer: Steve Junkin (o) 603-224-9945*310 [email protected] [email protected] Secretary: Samuel Taylor (o) 603-227-8735 [email protected] Rhode Island News Corres: Steve Eisenhaure Chair: Paul Dolan (o) 401-500-0399 [email protected] Vice-Chair: Marc Tremblay (o) 401-568-3410 [email protected] Green Mountain Sec/Treas: Robert W. MacMillian (o) 401-521-6300*7318 Chair: Mike White (o) 802-231-2555 [email protected] [email protected] News Corres: Christopher F. Modisette (o) 401-822-8877 Vice-Chair: Vacant Secretary: Vacant [email protected] Treasurer: Jason P. Nerenberg (o) 802-498-4342 [email protected] Connecticut News Corres: Ginger Anderson Chair: Larry Rousseau (o) 424-3382 [email protected] [email protected] Sec/Treas: Emery Gluck News Corres: Mel Harder (o) 860-653-2444 [email protected] Maine Massachusetts Chair: Kristen Hoffmann (o) 207-945-9200 [email protected] Chair: Jennifer Fish (o) 545-5753 [email protected] Vice Chair: Bob Cousins (o) 207-570-0553 Vice -Chair: Ross Hubacz (o) 860-974-0127 [email protected] [email protected] Sec/Treas: Kate Marquis (o) 413-992-8734 [email protected] Sec/Treas: William H. Livingston (o) 207-581-2990 News Corres: William Hill (o) 413-545-3891 [email protected] [email protected] News Corres: Tony Filauro (H) 207-723-9401 Canada [email protected] News Corres. N. Brunswick: Edwin Swift (o) 506-452-3175 Div. Manager: Laura Audibert (o) 207-834-0048 [email protected] [email protected] News Corres. Quebec: Vacant News Quarterly Publication and Advertising Information The News Quarterly is the official publication of the New England Society of American Foresters. It is published in January, April, June, Issue Submission Deadline Publication Date Advertising Size Advertising Rate and October, and is mailed from Berlin, NH under a non-profit organi- zation bulk mail permit. Address all inquiries to Joseph P. Barsky, 890 Winter 22-Dec 15-Jan 1/2 page $90/issue Evergreen Avenue, Hamden, CT 06518 or [email protected] Spring 22-Mar 15-Apr 1/3 page $70/issue Summer 22-May 15-Jun 1/4 page $50/issue Autumn 22-Sep 15-Oct 1/8 page $30/issue Volume 79, Issue 2 Page 3 Greetings from the Granite State! ~ Kevin Evans, NESAF Chair “A good time was had by all”: These were the sentiments I heard about our recent Winter Meeting in Nashua New Hampshire. I do hope it is true! I would like to thank each of our sponsors, exhibitors, committee members, and students, who helped make this year’s winter meeting a success! A special thanks to Susan Francher, who in her capacity as General Chair, successfully coordinated a year’s worth of planning and volunteers, and all the behind the scenes work that we at the conference never see. Thanks to Senator Shaheen for taking the time to stop by and spend some time with us. Thanks to a great program committee that coordinated 45 speakers in 20 concurrent sessions, 1 workshop and 3 field trips to contribute to the theme New England Forest Stories: The People – The Management – The Technical Knowledge. I also don’t think I have ever seen as many raffle and silent auction items; a special thanks to Harold Cook for his coordination there. Congratulations to all who received awards and recognition for your service or contributions to forestry and SAF. As always, it was great to see old friends and colleagues at the many evening events. Congratulations to the University of Vermont students who took a very closely contested Quiz Bowl trophy home. It was fun to see all of us older folks trying to remember all that details of our forestry knowledge. Thanks to those members who sponsored a student, as was said many times, it is the youth that will take over this organization when all of us in the big bar graph are gone. Early engagement is the key! As we look forward to the summer and fall I hope to see you at events around New England. It seems we are in a time of transition and we need to be engaged in that change so we can inform the outcomes. I think we have good leadership at national SAF: Thanks to John McNulty for stepping up and serving as Vice President, to Si Balch for serving as our District 6 representative, and Jas Smith for serving on the National SAF Forest Policy Board. It is good that we in New England will have a voice in the national discussions. All state societies should be thinking about a representative who might attend the Leadership Academy at Grey Towers in Pennsylvania in the fall. People wanting more information should contact myself or Ken Laustsen. Finally, thanks for being a member of SAF. Enjoy the spring! Council Update ~ Si Balch, CF Forester Inventory 2018 How many foresters do you think there are? Good question. Well, we have decided to take an inventory ( a good estimate). I am heading up a task group at SAF to find out how many foresters, forest techs and other qualifying professionals are out there that are eligible to be SAF members.